again to the back of the line, this is for people that want to see the queen s coffin lying in state when it opens to the public. i say i was at the back of the line. it has already stretched for quite some distance. hundreds of thousands of people are expected to do this. people have been warned the queue could take 30 hours, go overnight. it will move continuously once it s over. this isn t the only crowds we re seeing in london today, plenty of people lining the procession route. they want to pay their last respects in person. there has been jubilation celebrating the queen s life but also we ll see silence wanting to reflect on their life and the person they lost. the procession will start in the next few hours, a very pomp and ceremony type of session. we ll see the casket brought by gun ceremony and it will be moving slowly down we seem to have lost before it arrives at westminster hall. anna stewart thank you. the crowds have a choice to make to line the st
country. i believe in the very soul of this nation. and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe it in my core, there isn t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. just remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decided to invest making chips in america. billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again. and now i m going to take action that i have been looking forward to doing for 18 months. going to sign this inflation reduction act. okay. here we go. it s now law. [ applause ] all right, we have been watching president biden at the white house signing what democrats are calling the inflation reduction act into law. that is sweeping investment in green energies, tax reform, and other measures related to health care. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. the $750 billion health care, tax, and c
committee and other law enforcement agencies want access to the text messages his lawyers accidentally sent to the plaintiffs. plus, changes to airline cancellation rules may be about to take off. why passengers could actually get refunds for all of those canceled and delayed flights. welcome to the lead. we start with the world lead. a russian court found wnba star brittney griner guilty today of drug smuggling, quote, with criminal intent. the judge ordering griner to spend nine years in a russian penal colony that s under the maximum sentence. griner was arrested and charged in february for smuggling less than one gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. her lawyers argued she had been packing quickly to play for the russian premier league and didn t know that the cannabis oil, which had been prescribed by a u.s. doctor, was not allowed in russia. griner delivering this plea as part of her closing statement. i want to say again that i had no intent on breaking any
what are top cops saying about the disturbing scene. and decision time. will president biden fulfill a campaign promise and cancel student loan debt for millions of americans, and if he does that, might that make inflation worse? an announcement could be days away. good afternoon, welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we re going to start with our world lead and the mystery of who murdered russian propagandist darya dugina, the daughter of russian writer alexander dugin. an imperialist who things russia should occupy all of europe, not just ukraine, extending from ireland to serbia. dugin watched from a different car as his 29-year-old daughter was exploded look with her toyota that burst into flames 20 miles west of moscow on saturday. fsb claims a ukrainian did it. ukraine insists that s false. russia says a woman who was a member of ukraine s far right azov regimen plotted the attack. they allege this assassin brought her 12-year-old daughter with her into russia and
world, it is wednesday, august 3rd and i m brianna keilar with john avalon this morning. good morning? in for john berman. good morning to you. and it is the morning after election night in america where democracy was one of the things on the ballot. primary races in five states setting the stage for what will be some of the most competitive races in november. also another test of donald trump s grip on the gop. in conservative kansas voters sent a dramatic message and a resounding defeat for efforts to eliminate state abortion protections. it s the first time since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade that voters have weighed in on the issue. with 78% of the vote in as of tuesday night nearly 700,000 people have cast ballots in the primary and that number dwarfs the voter turnout in the 2020 presidential primary election. and remember when ex-president trump endorsed an ambiguous eric in the missouri senate race on election eve? well, one of the erics won, cnn projec